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Festival Darlings

21–40 of 961 films

  • Why Elephants?

    2012 16+ 8 min

    by Marko Meštrović

    Simple questions do not always get a simple answer.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Why

    2017 16+ 7 min

    by Iva Božić

    Two alpinists, Ola and Bole, embark on the adventure of a lifetime – a winter ascent along the dangerous Messer-Schmidt route. But before they reached the top, they were forced to abandon further ascent. Desperate and losing hope of staying alive, they surrender to thoughts of a happier scenario. The animated film “comes true” of their wishes and the good old search for a better life begins.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Who I Am and What I Want

    2005 Adults 7 min

    by Chris Shepherd, David Shrigley

    A scribbled, strangely funny but highly unsettling examination of the human condition. The story of a man who bares his emotions, history, hang ups and desires in all of their dysfunctional absurdity then leaves us to assemble not only his identity but to question our own.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • White Plastic Sky (Trailer)

    2023 Adults 2 min

    by Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó

    2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen isgradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.

    • Drama
    • Sci-Fi
  • White Horse

    2019 16+ 7 min

    by Yujie Xu

    They say an accordion could never talk to a white horse.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • White Forest

    2014 16+ 5 min

    by Marta Prokopová

    The story about love in white forest.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • by Pavel Koutský

    A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Political
  • Whispering Onion

    2018 16+ 4 min

    by Akari Hiraoka

    Porky is cooking in his kitchen when he hears a strange whispering. He soon realises it is coming from the onion!

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Pavel Koutský

    A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • When The Moon Was Gibbous

    2021 16+ 4 min

    by Erika Grace Strada

    Sci-fi fantasy observing the life of a colorful ensemble of beasts, when they are abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a small group of humans, that are determined to subdue the largest one of them.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by IRINA RUBINA

    Star people strolling trough the night. Each of them alone, in their own dance, accompanied by shiny flowing waves. Those small sparkling dashes can lead them out of the darkness into surrealistic, mysterious and cheerful scenery, if everything goes right…

    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • What Resonates in Silence

    2020 16+ 8 min

    by Maëva Blin

    Hiding death does not make it disappear. A little girl who suffered from the silence of adults felt dispossessed of her right to mourn. As an adult, she recounts the tender gestures that bind her to the dead.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • What They Believe

    2015 16+ 10 min

    by Shoko Hara

    Glad tidings about a device that will turn life around for good – Three treasure hunters follow the cross – A father and a son share the secrets of everlasting joy – On the other hand, a crippled child can only find serenity inside his model railway. A miracle healer shall finally bring him salvation… Little by little, odd human beings and an odd world will manifest.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative
  • by Gabriel Gabriel Garble

    A gentle animation that played Sundance and Ann Arbor. Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from a loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion records the arm being exposed to different textures and materials. What will become of the limb and the video recordings?

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Welcome to the Welcome

    2022 16+ 2 min

    by Gabriela Sibilska

    This is an excerpt of the first track of Zoë Aqua’s new album “In Vald Arayn”

    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Wednesday with Goddard

    2016 16+ 4 min

    by Nicolas Ménard, Nicolas Menard

    A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
  • Wedding Cake

    2013 13+ 9 min

    by Viola Baier

    A unique story of a marzipan couple who tries to make the marriage perfect on top of a wedding cake.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Romance
    • Fantasy
  • We Were a Sterile Bomb

    2020 16+ 15 min

    by Dotan Moreno

    We Were a Sterile Bomb is a coming-of-age story of 21-year-old Avi, living in a small southern town in 1997’s Israel. Avi, a lonely introvert, wanders in and out of the city. An encounter with a young man his age shakes his numb world.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Coming-of-Age
  • Wayward

    2020 16+ 3 min

    by Cheng-Hsu Chung

    “Wayward” is a vibrant and surreal animated music video featuring the music of British singer-songwriter Chelou.

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative